Lisp Quotes

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Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.